4:45 - 6:45PM on Mondays at 147 Wyndham St., Room 309

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This course will be based around reading Derrick Jensen's newest book "Endgame: The Collapse of Civilizaiton and Rebirth of community" and then discussing the readings each week. The book focuses on anti-civilization theory as well as tactics that will aid people in bringing down civilization. The copy of the book we have is on cd. If this is a problem in terms of accessibility, please let us know in advance and we will print out a version for you.

Week 1, p. 9-81
Apocalypse
Five Stories
Civilization
Clean Water
Catastrophe
Violence
Irredeemable

Week 2, p. 82-154
Counterviolence
Listening to the Land
Carrying Capacity
The Needs of the Natural World
Predator and Prey
Choices

Week 3, p. 155-229
Abuse
A Culture of Occupation
Why Civilization is Killing the World, Volume I

Week 4, p. 230-319
Why Civilization is Killing the World, Volume II
Bringing Down Civilization, Volume I
A History of Violence
Hatred
Love Does Not Imply Pacifism
It’s Time to Get Out

Week 5, p. 320-399
Courage
Hope
The Civilized Will Smile As They Tear You Limb From Limb
Their Insanity Was Permanent
Romantic Nihilism
Neck Deep in Denial
Making It Happen
Fulcrums

Week 6, p. 400-492
Violence
Spending Our Way To Sustainability
Empathy and Its Other
Should We Fight Back?
Star Wars
We Shall Destroy All of Them
Winning
Importance

Week 7, p. 493-581
Bringing Down Civilization, Volume II
Identification
Abusers
A Thousand Years
Dams, Volume I
Pretend You Are a River
Dams, Volume II

Week 8, p. 582-656
Dams, Volume III
Dams, Volume IV
Too Much to Lose (Short term loss, long term gain)
Psychopathology
Pacifism, Volume I
Responsibility

Week 9, p. 657-740
Pacifism, Volume II
What It Means To Be Human
Pacifism, Volume III
Fewer Than Jesus Had Apostles
Pacifism, Volume IV
Symbolic and Non-Symbolic Actions

Week 10, p. 741-835
Like a Bunch of Machines
Bringing Down Civilization, Volume III
Breaking Faith
A Matter of Time
Bringing Down Civilization, Volume IV
The Crash
Civilization, Ongoing Holocaust
Endgame
The Return of the Salmon